Fifteen years ago, more than 250,000 Rohingya Muslims fled from Northern Rakhine State, Myanmar to Bangladesh, pushed out of their own land by discrimination, violence and forced labour practices carried out by the Myanmar authorities. Over the years, most of them have been returned to Myanmar...
A week after the official suppression of the Zone of Confidence, the international humanitarian organisation Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) reports a sharp increase of violence against civilians in the area around Bangolo. The Zone of Confidence (zone de confiance) was a buffer zone between the...
In the last weeks, tens of thousands of displaced Somalis have fled Mogadishu following a resurgence of violence in the capital city of Somalia, already home to many displaced people. This recent spell of violence has put entire columns of people on roads attempting to move to safer areas of the...
On May 1, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) officially handed over its HIV/AIDS programme to the regional Ethiopian Bureau of Health, the government authority responsible for health in the Humera district of Ethiopia. Occurring only three years after the humanitarian medical organisation started to...
"We are worth nothing" is the phrase a man used for describing his life, and that of other refugees in Malaysia. The lack of legal recognition (Malaysia is not a signatory to the Refugee Convention); the constant fear for arrest and deportation; the often inhuman living conditions; and the...
Teams of MSF in North Darfur have travelled to areas where humanitarians organisation had not been able to go for months. They found communities who were completely cut off from international assistance. In two cars stacked with medicines, a team set out from Kebkabya in an attempt to reach Kagoro...
By Paul Foreman, Former Head of Mission in Iraq MSF has started remote operations in Iraq providing essential supplies to medical facilities. It is the first attempt at restarting operations in the country since the movement left in October 2004 because of insecurity and the direct targeting of aid...
Southern Sudan has paid the highest price among countries affected by meningitis this year. Several teams from Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) are caring for those affected by the deadly epidemic and vaccinating the population at risk throughout a number of states in the region. But to make matters...
